Sculpting Digital Realities. Notes on Truth to Materials, the Aesthetic Limit, Site-Specificity and 3D-Printing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Summary 8
5. Introduction 9
6. Art Meets Science and Technology 26
7. Historical Precursors
8. “Curious Machines”. Reproducing Sculpture via Machine and Its Modus of Display in the Nineteenth Century 37
9. The Aesthetics of (Digital) Machine Sculpture. Automatization, Mechanization, and Mathematization in Minimal, Serial, Conceptual, and Computer Art 58
10. Between the Virtual and the Physical: Material Reflections
11. Sculpting Digital Realities. Notes on Truth to Materials, the Aesthetic Limit, Site-Specificity and 3D-Printing 83
12. (IM)MATERIALS—(IM)MATERIALITIES—(IM)MATERIALIZATIONS. Some Thoughts on the Analogital Condition(s) of the Sculptural 102
13. Considering Skawennati’s Celestial Trees. Sculpture Between the Virtual and the Physical 119
14. When the Virtual Becomes Tangible. Tracing Design, Architecture, and Art at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 138
15. Reclaiming Monumentality
16. The Twenty-First-Century Monuments. Reflections on Nomadic and Intermedial Monumentality 161
17. Confederate Monument 2.0. Mary Ellen Carroll at Prospect.3 184
18. The Expanded Field of Digital Sculpture and the Cybernetic Condition
19. Media Sculpture. The Cybernetic Condition 201
20. Sculpture in the Digitally Expanded Field 217
21. Credits 235
22. Biographies 239